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Access to Originals

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Please use the digital image in preference to requesting the original. All images can be
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Congress because the item is rights restricted or has not been evaluated for rights
restrictions.
As a preservation measure, we generally do not serve an original item when a digital image
is available. If you have a compelling reason to see the original, consult with a reference
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online where they are presented as positive images.)

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such as microfilm or copy prints?

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surrogate.

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the Prints and Photographs Reading Room. In many cases, the originals can be served in a few minutes.
Other materials require appointments for later the same day or in the future. Reference staff can
advise you in both how to fill out a call slip and when the item can be served.

To contact Reference staff in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room, please use our
Ask A Librarian service or call the reading room between 8:30 and
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[Unidentified soldier in Confederate great coat and kepi]
Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
Title devised by Library staff. The unidentified Confederate soldier is descended from the Lucord family of Richmond, Virginia. The soldier may be William T. Lucord (b1838) who served as a Private in the Virginia Light Artillery. Case: Berg, no. 1-142. Gift; Bryan Slater in honor of Phyllis Slater Lucord; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:131). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).

Date:1861

Collection

[National emblems, a set of Civil War playing cards]
Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
This catalog record contains preliminary data. Title devised by Library staff. The National emblems set of cards was printed by the American Card Company for Union Army soldiers and their families. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Benj. W. Hitchcock, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York....

Contributor:
American Card Company

Date:1862

Photo, Print, Drawing

[Bombproof huts in the front line before Petersburg, August 10, 1864]
Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
No. 808. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mounted with five other photographs under the general title: Bomb-proof Quarters in Federal Camps in front of Petersburg, Va. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

Contributor:
O'Sullivan, Timothy H.

Date:1864

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The world of Elmer Bendiner /
Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
Foreword by Robert Bendiner. LC copy 1: Gift; Mrs. Alfred Bendiner and the Alfred Bendiner Foundation; 1988; (DLC/PP-1988:247.94).

Contributor:
Bendiner, Elmer

Date:1966

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Contributor:
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